Andrew Sullivan backtracks. Somehow he thinks this wasn't pointing the finger at conservatives:
It's possible, I suppose, that anger at the feds in general could make a drug dealer murder a census worker. But the most worrying possibility - that this is Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts - remains real. We'll see.
No see, Andrew was just commenting on the possibility. But why is the Fox/GOP explanation the "most worrying"? What if the census worker was murdered by a gang led by the flaming, floating, disembodied head of Ernest Borgnine? Wouldn't that be the most worrying? Tell you what, It'd worry me more. Or what if it was a roving band of khat chewing Harajuku Girls, out to kill those who don't dress flamboyantly enough? Maybe Sullivan suffers from an anemic imagination; I can think of lots more worrying scenarios.
No, what Andrew was saying was that the GOP whips up Southern populist terrorism. He might be stupid and really believe that. I mean it's a real, very real, possibility that he's that stupid. But I think his agenda is to silence the opposition. "Shut-up you guys. Every time you call for smaller government, someone in Alabama blows up a post office." Or of course, he could be that stupid; it's a possibility, a very real possibility.
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